Jim Cramer Calls FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried a Pathological Liar, Conman, and Clueless Idiot

The big of Mad Money, Jim Cramer, says erstwhile FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is simply a pathological liar and a conman. “That feline is simply a clueless idiot. Intent means nothing. Saying atrocious means nothing,” Cramer stressed.

Jim Cramer connected Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Collapse

The big of CNBC’s Mad Money show, Jim Cramer, shared his thoughts astir the illness of crypto speech FTX and its co-founder and erstwhile CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) successful a mates of interviews connected CNBC Thursday. Cramer is simply a erstwhile hedge money manager who co-founded Thestreet.com, a fiscal quality and literacy website.

Commenting connected Bankman-Fried’s assertion during an interview astatine the New York Times Dealbook Summit that helium “didn’t effort to perpetrate fraud connected anyone,” Cramer said:

That feline is simply a clueless idiot. Intent means nothing. Saying atrocious means nothing. If you commingle, if you had nary grounds keeping, those are against the law.

“You were sloppy, you didn’t support records —illegal — alright, truthful if you’re admitting to illegality, adjacent though you deliberation that you had nary intent, the U.S. lawyer does not attraction 1 wit astir intent, but what the U.S. lawyer cares astir is: did you interruption the law,” Cramer stressed.

“Being a bully guy, which helium intelligibly is, is irrelevant … It means perfectly nothing. Some of the nicest radical I cognize person spent immoderate superior clip successful jail,” the Mad Money big shared.

Referring to Bankman-Fried, Cramer emphasized:

He’s a pathological liar. He’s a conman.

“He admitted to commingling accounts that shouldn’t beryllium commingled but past helium says, ‘it doesn’t truly substance I consciousness bad,'” the Mad Money big continued, adding: “Then again it doesn’t substance if he’s a pathological liar oregon the astir honorable antheral successful America. The information is helium broke the law.” Cramer noted: “If you commingle funds … you astir apt spell to jailhouse for that truthful don’t commingle.”

In a antithetic interrogation connected CBNC Thursday, Cramer opined: “I deliberation Sam immoderate — I don’t adjacent privation to dignify his afloat sanction anymore — is conscionable a con artist.” The Mad Money big elaborated:

The con creator was conscionable wild, he’s fabulous. Commingled, stole, but helium was sorry.

“Stealers ne'er accidental you’re sorry. I don’t attraction astir ‘alleged’ anymore. I’m dropping the full ‘alleged’ nonsense. I’m not being a writer anymore erstwhile it comes to that guy,” Cramer concluded.

FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy connected Nov. 11 and Bankman-Fried stepped down arsenic the CEO. An estimated 1 cardinal customers and investors mislaid billions of dollars from the speech collapse. The institution is present being investigated for mishandling lawsuit funds. FTX’s caller CEO, John Ray, told the bankruptcy court: “Never successful my vocation person I seen specified a implicit nonaccomplishment of firm controls and specified a implicit lack of trustworthy fiscal accusation arsenic occurred here.”

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